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22 de abr. de 2024 · Muerte de Vladimir Nabokov. Vladimir Nabokov falleció el 2 de julio de 1977. Otras de sus obras conocidas aparte de Lolita son Tragedia del señor Morn (1924), Pnin (1957), Pálido fuego (1962), Ada o el ardor (1969) y La belleza rusa (1973). Su hijo, Dmitri, quedó encargado del manejo de sus creaciones.
18 de abr. de 2024 · Vladimir Nabokov was a Russian-born American novelist and critic and the foremost of the post-1917 emigre authors. He wrote in both Russian and English, and his best works, including Lolita (1955), feature stylish, intricate literary effects.
Hace 4 días · Their rooms include one used for visits by their son Dmitri, and another, the chambre de debarras, where various items are deposited—Turkish and Japanese editions of Lolita, other books, sporting equipment, an American flag. Nabokov arises early in the morning and works.
Hace 5 días · Soon after, his father was assassinated by Russian monarch ists, an event which traumatized Nabokov severely. As years went by, his career as a writer and poet began to bloom, and he married Véra Evseyevna Slonim. Together they had their only child, Dmitri Nabokov, and in 1937 the family moved to France, and eventually the United States.
24 de abr. de 2024 · This is clear when we read ‘Lolita’s creative predecessor, ‘The Enchanter’, a short one-hundred-page novella (Nabokov, 1939) which was written in Russian but only published by our authors son Dmitri Nabokov posthumously in 1986.
23 de abr. de 2024 · This 1969 novel, which led to one of Nabokov’s nominations for the Nobel Prize (that failed to win it, like all the others) resonates strongly with Dovlatov’s story about how the famous linguist Roman Jakobson took exception to Nabokov’s appointment at Harvard University. When it was proposed that Nabokov be offered a job as professor of Russian literature because he was ‘after all, an ...
26 de abr. de 2024 · Much to Kern’s disbelief, Isabel likes to stay out on the slopes after dark, leaping, as she says, “right up to the stars” and encountering who-knows-what in the snowy darkness. One night, unable to sleep, Kern hears guitar music, laughter and strange barks coming from Isabel’s room. The next night – drunk, half-crazed, and suicidal ...
